High School Diploma

Bishop Seabury Academy

Kansas, USA

N/A

Diploma Data Analytics with Python

Emtech

Cdmx, MX

N/A

Diplomado Historia Mundial

MIDE

Cdmx, MX

N/A

Diplomado Historias Comparadas de Desarrollo

MIDE

Cdmx, MX

N/A

Diplomado Historia de Mexico

MIDE

Cdmx, MX

N/A

Diplomado …….?

N/A

Cdmx, MX

N/A

BSc Economics

UNAM

Cdmx, MX

2020 - 2015

• Focused on network models & interactive visualization platforms for electronic health records data
• University Graduate Fellow

Data Science Summer School

Beihang University

Beijing, CH

2015 - 2011

• Thesis: An agent based model of Diel Vertical Migration patterns of Mysis diluviana

Diploma Data Science

UNAM

Cdmx, MX

2013 - 2012

• Independently analyzed and constructed statistical models for large data sets pertaining to carbon decomposition rates.

Software Engineer

Remote

RStudio

Current - 2020

• Helping make programming web applications with R easier and more beautiful on the Shiny team

Data Journalist - Graphics Department

New York, New York

New York Times

2016 - 2016

• Reporter with the graphics desk covering topics in science, politics, and sport.
• Work primarily done in R, Javascript, and Adobe Illustrator.

Engineering Intern - User Experience

Burlington, VT

Dealer.com

2015 - 2015

• Built internal tool to help analyze and visualize user interaction with back-end products.

Data Science Intern

Burlington, VT

Dealer.com

2015 - 2015

• Worked with the product analytics team to help parse and visualize large stores of data to drive business decisions.

Data Artist In Residence

Carpinteria, CA

Conduce

2015 - 2014

• Envisioned, prototyped and implemented visualization framework in the course of one month.
• Constructed training protocol for bringing third parties up to speed with new protocol.

Software Engineering Intern

Carpinteria, CA

Conduce

2014 - 2014

• Incorporated d3.js to the company’s main software platform.

Graduate Research Assistant

Vanderbilt University

TBILab (Yaomin Xu’s Lab)

Current - 2015

• Primarily working with large EHR and Biobank datasets.
• Developing network-based methods to investigate and visualize clinically relevant patterns in data.

Data Science Researcher

Johns Hopkins University

Data Science Lab

2018 - 2017

• Building R Shiny applications in the contexts of wearables and statistics education.
• Work primarily done in R Shiny and Javascript (node and d3js).

Undergraduate Researcher

University of Vermont

Rubenstein Ecosystems Science Laboratory

2015 - 2013

• Analyzed and visualized data for CATOS fish tracking project.
• Head of data mining project to establish temporal trends in population densities of Mysis diluviana (Mysis).
• Ran project to mathematically model the migration patterns of Mysis (honors thesis project.)

Human Computer Interaction Researcher

University of Michigan

LabInTheWild (Reineke Lab)

2015 - 2015

• Led development and implementation of interactive data visualizations to help users compare themselves to other demographics.

Undergraduate Researcher

University of Vermont

Bentil Laboratory

2014 - 2013

• Developed mathematical model to predict the transport of sulfur through the environment with applications in waste cleanup.

Javascript for Shiny Users

N/A

RStudio::conf 2020

2020

• Served as TA for two day workshop on how to leverage Javascript in Shiny applications
• Lectured on using R2D3 package to build interactive visualizations.

Data Visualization Best Practices

N/A

DataCamp

2019 - 2019

• Designed from bottom up course to teach best practices for scientific visualizations.
• Uses R and ggplot2.
• In top 10% on platform by popularity.

Improving your visualization in Python

N/A

DataCamp

2019 - 2019

• Designed from bottom up course to teach advanced methods for enhancing visualization.
• Uses python, matplotlib, and seaborn.

Advanced Statistical Learning and Inference

Nashville, TN

Vanderbilt Biostatistics Department

2018 - 2017

• TA and lectured
• Topics covered from penalized regression to boosted trees and neural networks
• Highest level course offered in department

Advanced Statistical Computing

Nashville, TN

Vanderbilt Biostatistics Department

2018 - 2018

• TA and lectured
• Covered modern statistical computing algorithms
• 4th year PhD level class

Statistical Computing in R

Nashville, TN

Vanderbilt Biostatistics Department

2017 - 2017

• TA and lectured
• Covered introduction to R language for statistics applications
• Graduate level class

Using AWK and R to Parse 25tb

N/A

LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com

2019

• Story of parsing large amounts of genomics data.
• Provided advice for dealing with data much larger than disk.
• Reached top of HackerNews.

Classifying physical activity from smartphone data

N/A

RStudio Tensorflow Blog

2018

• Walk through of training a convolutional neural network to achieve state of the art recognition of activities from accelerometer data.
• Contracted article.

The United States of Seasons

N/A

LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com

2018

• GIS analysis of weather data to find the most ‘seasonal’ locations in United States
• Used Bayesian regression methods for smoothing sparse geospatial data.

A year as told by fitbit

N/A

LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com

2017

• Analyzing a full years worth of second-level heart rate data from wearable device.
• Demonstrated visualization-based inference for large data.

MCMC and the case of the spilled seeds

N/A

LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com

2017

• Full Bayesian MCMC sampler running in your browser.
• Coded from scratch in vanilla Javascript.

The Traveling Metallurgist

N/A

LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com

2017

• Pure javascript implementation of traveling salesman solution using simulated annealing.
• Allows reader to customize the number and location of cities to attempt to trick the algorithm.

Great paper? Swipe right on the new ‘Tinder for preprints’ app

N/A

Science

2017 - 2017

• Story of the app Papr made with Jeff Leek and Lucy D’Agostino McGowan.

Swipe right for science: Papr app is ‘Tinder for preprints’

N/A

Nature News

2017 - 2017

• Second press article for app Papr.

A Trail of Terror in Nice, Block by Block

N/A

The New York Times

2016 - 2016

• Led research effort to put together story of 2016 terrorist attack in Nice, France in less than 12 hours.
• Work won Silver medal at Malofiej 2017, and gold at Society of News and Design.

Asymmetric Linkage Disequilibrium: Tools for Dissecting Multiallelic LD

N/A

Journal of Human Immunology

2015 - 2015

• Authored with Richard Single, Vanja Paunic, Mark Albrecht, and Martin Maiers.